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No-one can have lived and watched Europe in the last four or five years without excitement and fears about the drama of the changes that are taking place. The constitution and map of Europe has changed to supersede the canvas that the Yalta Agreement and Treaty of Versailles put in place. The discussions of territory and local government administration have been returned in part to where they stood in 1918. But at the same time new forces of reform of democracy and the role of the administrative state are also effecting change. The result is that the countries of Eastern and Central Europe are not just catching up with the democracies of the West. The collapse of communism and centralised planning has also given a shock wave to Western Europe: to realign its institutions to a wider European canvas, and to accommodate the EC as a potential community of not 12 or 19 nations but perhaps 26 or 27 with a more diverse history, set of institutions and level of economic development.
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Jónsson, S. (1996). Reinventing Local and Regional Governments - Lessons from the Edge. In: Lyck, L., Boyko, V.I. (eds) Management, Technology and Human Resources Policy in the Arctic (The North). NATO ASI Series, vol 5. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-0249-7_19
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